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December 16, 2004

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Frye's Unofficial Margin Widens
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 16-San Diego's disputed mayoral election appears likely to be settled in the courts as the sides weigh their legal options. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political science professor at UCSD.) More

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What Do Ethicists Say?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 16-Stem cell research has become the latest holy grail in the world of science. But with the hopes come the questions. Michael Kalichman, director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD, whose job is to think about the ethics of medical research, has more than a dozen of these questions. More

A Delicate Balance: Maintaining Scholarly, Military Commitments
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 15-Jeff Dingler's already had an impressive run as a Scripps Institution of Oceanography student a little more than halfway through his journey toward earning a Ph.D. The third-year student studies the fault lines below Lake Tahoe with his adviser, Scripps geophysicist Graham Kent, and other researchers at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics. More

Researchers Improve Predictions of Cloud Formation for Better Global Climate Modeling
PhysOrg.com, Dec. 16-A new type of cloud condensation nuclei counter was developed by Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Athanasios Nenes and Gregory Roberts at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The instrument measures how many cloud droplets form and how long they take to form. More